Trump will hold a rally in Michigan next week to mark his first 100 days in office

LANSING, Mich. – President Donald Trump volition people his archetypal 100 days successful bureau adjacent week with a rally successful Michigan, his archetypal since returning to the White House earlier this year.

Trump volition sojourn Macomb County connected Tuesday, the White House property caput said. The portion conscionable northbound of Detroit, known arsenic an automotive hub.

“President Trump is excited to instrumentality to the large authorities of Michigan adjacent Tuesday, wherever helium volition rally successful Macomb County to observe the FIRST 100 DAYS!” Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday connected societal media.

The rally volition instrumentality spot 1 time earlier Trump’s 100th time successful bureau — a accepted aboriginal milestone successful which a president's advancement is measured against run promises. Michigan was 1 of the key battleground states Trump flipped past twelvemonth from Democrats connected his way backmost to the White House.

Trump has not traveled overmuch since taking bureau extracurricular of idiosyncratic play trips. His lone different authoritative travel successful his 2nd word was during the archetypal week, erstwhile helium visited disaster zones successful North Carolina and California and held an lawsuit successful Las Vegas to beforehand his program to destruct taxes connected tips.

But aboriginal this week, Trump volition question to Pope Francis' ceremonial successful Rome, the archetypal overseas travel successful his 2nd term.

Trump’s upcoming travel to Michigan follows a bid of meetings and telephone calls with the state’s high-profile Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer. Once a crisp professional of Trump, Whitmer has said that she hopes to find communal ground with the president successful his 2nd term.

A cardinal country of imaginable practice that Whitmer has pointed to is Selfridge Air National Guard Base, agelong a interest for Whitmer and Michigan lawmakers amid uncertainty implicit its aboriginal arsenic the A-10 craft stationed determination are phased out. The basal is located successful Macomb County, wherever helium is acceptable to look Tuesday.

Trump mentioned Selfridge during an April 9 enforcement bid signing successful the Oval Office, an lawsuit that Whitmer was contiguous for, saying helium hoped to support the basal “open, strong, thriving.”

“I deliberation we’re going to beryllium successful, Governor. I deliberation we’ll beryllium precise palmy there,” Trump said astir Selfridge.

Whitmer — whom Trump praised during his remarks — aboriginal said she was unexpectedly brought into the Oval Office during her visit. A photograph captured her trying to shield her look from cameras with a folder.

Asked Wednesday if Whitmer would look with the president successful Michigan, a spokesperson for the politician said they “don't person thing to stock astatine this time."

Whitmer and different Michigan officials person agelong advocated for a caller combatant ngo to regenerate the outgoing A-10 squadron astatine Selfridge.

In a 2023 missive sent during President Joe Biden’s administration, Whitmer urged the caput of the Air Force to act, writing, “I repetition and reiterate what I stated successful November and galore times earlier implicit the past year: a combatant ngo astatine Selfridge to recapitalize the A10s is the close way guardant for the State of Michigan, the Air Force, and the nation."

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